Mapping the World, Above Level Reader United States
Title | Mapping the World, Above Level Reader United States PDF eBook |
Author | Hsp |
Publisher | Harcourt Social Studies |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 2005-11 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780153528965 |
On the Map
Title | On the Map PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Garfield |
Publisher | Avery |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2013-11-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1592407803 |
Examines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history, and shares engaging cartography stories and map lore.
Maps
Title | Maps PDF eBook |
Author | James R. Akerman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
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Introducing readers to a wide range of maps from different time periods and a variety of cultures, this book confirms the vital roles of maps throughout history in commerce, art, literature, and national identity.
Me on the Map
Title | Me on the Map PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Sweeney |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 18 |
Release | 2018-09-18 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 152477202X |
Maps can show you where you are anywhere in the world! A beloved bestseller that helps children discover their place on the planet, now refreshed with new art from Qin Leng. Where are you? Where is your room? Where is your home? Where is your town? This playful introduction to maps shows children how easy it is to find where they live and how they fit in to the larger world. Filled with fun and adorable new illustrations by Qin Leng, this repackage of Me on the Map will show readers how easy it is to find the places they know and love with help from a map.
Mapping Penny's World
Title | Mapping Penny's World PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2000-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0805061789 |
After learning about maps in school, Lisa maps all the favorite places of her dog Penny.
The Map Reader
Title | The Map Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Dodge |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 528 |
Release | 2011-05-09 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0470980079 |
WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel Foundation The Map Reader brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarly writing about the changing nature of cartography over the last half century. The editorial selection of fifty-four theoretical and thought provoking texts demonstrates how cartography works as a powerful representational form and explores how different mapping practices have been conceptualised in particular scholarly contexts. Themes covered include paradigms, politics, people, aesthetics and technology. Original interpretative essays set the literature into intellectual context within these themes. Excerpts are drawn from leading scholars and researchers in a range of cognate fields including: Cartography, Geography, Anthropology, Architecture, Engineering, Computer Science and Graphic Design. The Map Reader provides a new unique single source reference to the essential literature in the cartographic field: more than fifty specially edited excerpts from key, classic articles and monographs critical introductions by experienced experts in the field focused coverage of key mapping practices, techniques and ideas a valuable resource suited to a broad spectrum of researchers and students working in cartography and GIScience, geography, the social sciences, media studies, and visual arts full page colour illustrations of significant maps as provocative visual ‘think-pieces’ fully indexed, clearly structured and accessible ways into a fast changing field of cartographic research
Special Publication
Title | Special Publication PDF eBook |
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Publisher | |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 1948 |
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